Holding it in....

This latest flare has really thrown me for a curveball and from what I've read,  it appears like I am just going into the same type of flare that so many of you have dealt with for years.

I am not a teacher, but a large part of my job involves instructing people how to use the software that I administer.

I am finding over the last 2 weeks while I've been running these sessions that I am struggling to keep things together...or as I mentioned in my Subject line "hold it in". I guess it is just a reality of having an IBD but I find rather than running off mid sentence to the facilities, I squirm, twist, crouch, basically whatever it takes to hold off my BM. The students face the front of the room and because of the way the room is set up, I am at the back of the room running my laptop and wander back and forth explaining and discussing things. This allows me to do my thing at the back without anybody knowing. But today I had 2 students sitting at the desks closest to where I stand. Well I was doing my thing and my intestines, etc. just made the loudest gurgling bubbling noises ever. One of the guys looked back and asked if I was going to be alright. 

I don't know what is worse, running off mid sentence or continuing to do this thing I do to hold things off until it is convenient. I guess I worry that one time I may not be able to hold it in and I will crap my pants at work!  If I'm at home I just run to the washroom and all is good.

I guess Immodium is a possibility whenever I run these sessions, which is going to be pretty steady over the next little bit.

Anybody else have any ideas?

I had to go the Depends route for a while. Just be sure to use a good talcum powder as
the boys will get a little warm. Good luck.

Later...

Pamine Forte is an anti spasmodic I think... Either way when I was flaring thats what my GI proscribed for the "gurgles" It worked for me.

i have actually had problems with this before and it wasn't any poo coming out- it's straight blood :( i dont know what to do either.. it's hard to explain to someone at work that you have to go home cuz you Bled out in your pants.. LOL

I too am 100% physically incapable of holding it in- I have a window of about 1 1/2 mintues before it just comes... no stopping it! Which gives me time to either run to the bathroom, or pull my car over, or squat over *something*.... Might I suggest, Lookingforthecure, that you change your signature to read "What works for me". I take what's in your sig, in so many words- I eat tons of salmon- plain or with soy sauce & olive oil, I take probiotics, I eat psyllium daily, spinach at least 3x a week, make yogurt smoothies 2-3x a week, & really don't do honey much- only in tea. And I still have urgency in a HUGE way- in fact, that & bleeding are my main symptoms. To the OP- start bringing in a care bag to work- ziplock baggies, baby wipes, extra underwear & pants, etc. Even having these items can be mentally relieving enough to make the urgency subside- sometimes! If you're not totally opposed to it, you could also wear a pantyliner/maxipad deal- that way, if an accident does happen, your pants are usually still clean. And if it happens, well... it happens.

I think immodium would help you. Try to take as little as you can, maybe 1/2 or 1 about 30 minutes before class?

I was never able to hold it in, that could not part of any plan.
And my gut usually only gurgled in the evening, for some reason, when I was usually home. But it could be LOUD

I did the same thing in high school, except then it got to the point I'd have to go before class, two or three times during class, and yeah... but I always did my best to hold it. Like, I hate hate hate pooping in public bathrooms, I'd run in there, pick a stall, and some butthole would get in the one right next to me and take five years to get their toilet paper apparently just perfect, or all the rude mean girls would go in there and hang out talking about their sex lives. So I gritted my teeth and tried to hold it lol

I think I have more gurgling now than I did while I was flaring, I don't think anything was in there long enough to make gurgles back then lol

I tried Nulev and it did nothing. I have some... diclypm..something... it's blue. But I haven't needed it yet.

I don't even remember thinking about BM when I was a kid. Sigh.
Although when I started drinking beer in college I discovered it would clean me out, pronto.

The best thing about Remicade is that I decide when I poo now! If I have a problem it's because of something I ate.